The Trump administration is reportedly planning to recruit hundreds of border patrol agents to assist Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)

Rights groups were present at immigration courts in Northern California this week to warn people that immigration authorities were dismissing their cases to have them arrested at the court and quickly deported.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers conducted operations this week inside federal immigration courts in Concord and San Francisco, according to attorneys with California Collaborative for Immigrant Justice.

Federal immigration officials arrested dozens of immigrants following their immigration court hearings in multiple U.S. cities this week, in operations that advocates said appeared to target people who had been in the country for less than two years.

The Trump administration is planning to dispatch Border Patrol agents to help with ICE arrests, part of a wider gambit to boost deportations by enlisting agencies across the government.

The Trump administration is releasing migrants to shelters along the US-Mexico border, despite a warning from FEMA that such aid might be illegal. Shelters are caught between helping immigrants and legal concerns,

State officials want rule and policy changes to remove, detain immigrants in the country illegally, not just criminals, those with removal orders.

It's the latest step taken by the Trump administration to dramatically ramp up immigration arrests across the country.

The ACLU of Maine filed a habeas corpus petition on behalf of Eyidi Ambila, who was born in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Standing near the southern border in Arizona, Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird thanked President Trump for his crackdown on illegal immigration.